Oh dear, oh dear, what to say?
I had the game on Radio WM, but the site’s SSL security certificate ran out which meant that you were probably seeing a warning about the site being unsafe. Let me reassure you, it isnt.
Anyway, I updated the certificate, only for the site to crash, which meant I was working on that and didn’t really concentrate on the commentary.

Hence any real assessment is vague at best, but the general tone of the commentary was easy to catch and when you hear “worrying”, “no shape” and “poor” etc, you have to be concerned.

I’ve said previously that our first few fixtures are tough and I hinted that I didn’t think we’d have many points racked up, which would probably lead to fans calling for Bruce’s head.
But from what I’ve seen on various other Villa sites, it seems the clamour has started already.

Now of course, it’s still very early days, but we’re already five points down on the league leaders and you have to wonder how much of a lead we might be able to pull back before it’s too late to challenge.

The most single worrying thing today was the comment that “Cardiff are a very average side, that will finish around tenth at best, yet they still beat us comfortably”.
So where does that leave us?

By the sounds of it, Warnock did his homework and targeted our right side, meaning Hutton had a shocker.
But more worryingly, it seems our defence was utter rubbish today, something I find strange given that we are supposed to have beefed it up. Words like “slow” maybe justify why some of us were concerned by Terry’s signing.
And just maybe my viewpoint about playing our “best” eleven so they get to know each other was also justified?
I don’t know.

As I said, it’s early days. Nothing is certain yet and Cardiff away is never going to be an easy game.
But we have another tough game coming up, away to Reading.
Are we confident that we’ll get anything there?

We need to start gaining points, even if they’re only single one’s because if we don’t, the season will be over before it’s really up and running.

I wonder what Tony Xia is thinking?
No reasonable owner is going to sack a manager this early, but you have to wonder how many poor performances he’ll tolerate.

I’m also intrigued as to how some of our more positive posters are going to react to this result.
I expect some very lively debate!

Badger I’d love bruce to turn it around win the next ten on the bounce but I can’t see it happening.
This side appears to me to lack character, a Harlem globe trotters type team of hastily assembled from players who looked like the best players at their former clubs but with no long term plan as how to forge them into a team.
It doesn’t look good mate, we are in danger of becoming a Nottingham Forest.

Bad day at the office or what it’s pointless calling the samaritans as they’ll be busy dealing with fans of Chelsea. Stupid saying this so early in the season but readings a must win game not only for Bruce but the fans

So where are the fans who laughed at the list I made again? Calamity Bruce fails again. This time being rolled over by Neil bloody Warnock. That’s the biggest embarrassment of it all. “But but but we change managers too often and even though I said he needed a pre-season and he got one and nothing’s changed, we need to keep him for that stability, even though he’s stabilizing us as a awful side who aren’t likely to go up and there’s no signs of getting any better even with the amazing Terry and Whelan”… Pretty sure I nailed most of the pro-Bruce comments set to arrive shortly.

Really karanka now your going down the I know about football & you don’t really Mr. Fucking football brains of the world I do watch everything about football other teams Inc managers & with the net my fucking worlds my oyster

You do realize Karanka actually took Boro up though, right? Just like your buddy did with Hull. Except Karanka didn’t walk about right before the start of the season, he stuck around despite not having money and the owner signing awful players. Karanka decided to speak his mind instead of run for the hills.

Thought you were old school? Thought you liked the type of manager who didn’t hide from his comments and lambasted people and the players who aren’t good enough? Or the owner who didn’t back him when asked?

I think you will find that Neil ‘etc’ Warnock has an exceptional record against the Villa – not that I’m offering it as an excuse.

Like all fans I’m very disappointed with today’s performance; I try and be positive, not blinkered, but I do want Bruce to be successful (for the club’s sake). He has to show he can turn this round quickly or yet another manager will be driving into Villa Park; the question is, if Bruce fails, can anybody successfully manage this club?

See Giddy, instead of acting like an emotional 12 year old girl, this is how you make a comment.

Anyways Hitchens, that is the problem. Has he shown any signs of change, progress and the like? Not at all. And I’m sure even the most pro-Bruce fan can call this, Bruce’s team. After 2 windows and a pre-season.

You can dish out the abuse when it suits you. Like Andrew I don’t give a shit. It’s not relevant. The point is Bruce. You still in favour? If you are say so and tell us why. I think he is crap. My supporting evidence is his record.
His team, his squad, pre season on top of 2/3 of last season. Tell me why he is fit to manage this club. I can’t see it.

You’re an incredibly angry and aggressive person, aren’t you? Saddest part is, despite the hostility, I’m calm as hell. But you keep getting angrier and angrier if that makes you feel better. I’ll just start ignoring you like I do Nath. It’s actually quite easy when it adds nothing of worth to the convo,

Andrew I told you before I really don’t care what you have to say. I don’t want to communicate with you even if that’s just by txt. if I have nothing to offer the convo, its just like looking in the mirror for you. because you offer absolutely nothing also. your as argumentative as me.but you cry if somebody is pointing out your flaws. you started calling me names, like this was suppose to upset me. so I return the insults. you threaten to tell tales to badger. its handbags stuff. I grew out of this at primary school.

yesterday you are discussing a subject with giddy and insult him saying hes acting like 12 year old girl. like this is a normal response to a adult debate. can you see the patterns, if you can’t win a argument you resort to name calling or slagging ppl down. but when this is done to you. you call for badger

Nath people who get cornered resort to these tactics basically they’ve got nothing in reserve, he says I’m the angry one nahhh I didn’t resort to name calling. He is a very unintelligent individual as proven in many posts

Its still early days this season we cant go sacking bruce yet but its worrying we didnt have a striker on the bench not even davis or murphy!? Not sure what he was thinking there. By the time kodjia is back we could be sadly too far behind already! Squeaky bum time.

Karanka lol talk to middlesbro fans they say he was ultra defensive his major flaw. boring football. lack of goals. this sounds familiar. so question is why was this great manager on the brilliant manager list you drew up from your great footballing knowledge.

another question none of them had any decent record, if I was gonna prove I knew it all I would have stuck with rafa like ooahaha. but you had to pull a rabbit out of a hat and suggested 4 or 5 names that even their mothers hadn’t heard of lol

don’t reply to me or I will tell badger on you or uncle oohahahah

why I am here I will say. I listened to the game on welsh radio so I am not best placed to comment. only on what was said. we were second best again. the welsh radio station were happy with Cardiff saying they were impressive, top 6 was their height of ambitions, oh they mentioned 3 of their players and how they bullied chester and terry and the fullbacks. I am too pissed off to bother to watch the highlights.

Last October i heard fan after fan bigging up Bruce’s experience and ability in the championship. At that time I said we needed a progressive young coach to rip up the setup like David Wagner, not a tactically inept dinosaur. Now Wagner sits at the top of the PL while we continue our descent down the football league. Where is the Bruce fan club now I ask? How many times will it take to learn that we need a young progressive non-British coach

be much to late after 15 games lang ,rdm was sacked after 11 and all i heard bruce hadnt time to much to catch up,we need a modern man or neil warnock 3m profit in charge same length of time as bruce just lookat difference two sides

Abysmal….nothing short of abysmal! I dont want anyone jumping on Bruce’s back though! This was completely down to lack of desire and passion from the PLAYERS….you’ll not convince me that Bruce tells them to play that way. Having said that, I will be blaming Bruce if he doesnt swing the axe for Tue. Only Onomah came out of the game with any real credit imo! Terry was slow and leggy. With hindsight, I feel Baker and Chester would have been a better pairing!. Gabby = terrible, Taylor = poor, Terry = very slow, no sign of the leadership I expected, Hutton = poor today, but commited as always. Hogan = willing, but no supply. Johnstone = awful, ship him back to Manure and bring back Steer!

johnson taylor terry all bruces men,hutton has been a liability for years yet gets praise for putting in a shift [big fucking deal he gets paid well enough]gabby the doc should have got shot of that rotten egg first day,and yes hogan gets praise every where tonight hardworking but no end ball 3more bruces men whelan elmo lainsby, time for a change

Its irrelant ‘whose men’ they are, they should have been better than they were today….so I’m agreeing with you to a point! What I dont agree with is your knee jerk reaction! The reason being that I know we’ll be in the top 2 by the end if the season….and thats all that matters! Do you want Conte, Klop, Hughes and Howe sacked after todays defeat….FFS, get real!

lang
its no knee jerk reaction,have wrote the same since bruce first day here.villa to big a club for a man away from top level for 20 years,thats the same shocking performance from villa in 30 of bruces 40 games in charge and what makesit worse it was all old supposedly professionals taylor terry huttongabynot young lads learning there way

Langford. You can’t be serious comparing those 4 to us, can you? The difference is this isn’t a knee jerk reaction. This crap has been going on since he’s been in charge. It’s not 1 or 2 games. It’s 37 league games. 10 months of football. And he’s failed.

You don’t want anyone jumping on Bruce’s back but he signed 8 of the 11 starters today and brought Gabby back which should never have happened. He made these decisions and he will pay for them. Its abysmal management from a man so far out of touch with the modern game its frightening.

Sorry Langford, but he admitted it was hit fault. He said after 6 months (which it’s been 10 so he’s a bit off), he can’t get it right and said he knows the consequences if he can’t get it right after 10 games. Which hopefully is the mark where he goes.He is in fact at fault for this. It’s his squad. Why is it Bruce gets a pass but past manager’s didn’t?

Bruce is pants. He really is. Picking Gabby in his first 11 is proof enough. There are lots of other reasons but there’s no point. You either have blind faith or not. He has past promotions – past relegations too. He is more likely to deliver the latter than the former. Support your club by all means but don’t be blind to the obvious

I solely wanna read 1 comment that’s Pro-Bruce that has nothing to do with the fact that they’re tired of changing managers. For footie reasons, why would anyone want to keep him? Has he shown progress? Has he shown the ability to change? Is he getting results? Is he close to creating a formula to get results? The answer is no too all of them. And I really hope he’s gone before Kodjia gets back because Kodjia will win us games no matter the manager (unless he plays Hogan up front with him which proved to not work last season) and it’ll keep him around.

I said this befor this manager of ours may have been half decent in the past but he simply hasnt kept up with modern day football he is a dinosaur ready to be made extinct harpoon the f ucker and lets put him out with the rest of the old relics weve had with his shyte shambolic team pickings tactics abonglahorn up front i mean what the f uck has bruce been on the crystal meth and what the f uck are they doing on the trg ground calderwood and all his inept cronies and that goes for the money suckers at the top of the club as well you get that rotund money sucker wyness talking a good game but what he talks and what we see are 2 completely different things yes lets fekin get a villa style we already have one its called the prehistoric shyte style i knew when charlie came in this shute would go down champions league he said absolute shyte more like vanarama league in 5 years. And next week we will still get all the villa tourist k nobs out for a day out not propa fans they come and eat burger and drink a beer and buy a program and take pics fooking whoopee doo im so cool look at me im at villa park they post to facebook and then clap away as all the shower of shyte trudge out to the pitch and then clap and cheer when we manage a single pass that actually finds our player like we just won the f uckin world cup thats what this club has come down to bruce is like a dinosaur nearly extinct we got bruce we may as well have got fat ron back this shower of absolute shyte not fit to wear the shirt and terry can piss off back from the hole he crawled out of anotha f uckin dinosaur after one last fat check from Dr fkin dolittle and the same for players from another decade i mean shyte like whelen and elohamanday seriously what about the young players rather play some of them but then you see their reserve scores and you realise the whole trg team must spend there time playing the caracas and watching homes under the hammer rather than doing any substantial trg with the players, bruce oute, round out, wyness out and any other dumb fucker who is hanging onto that fat underserved, overinflated paycheck while the real man on the street struggles to even put food on the table this worl is a f ckin scam world and i am cheesed off with it i would rather watch my invalide father who has dementia do crown green bowls and he even forgets the balls when we turn up to the green thats how bastard bad aston shyte villa are